Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c7f9034fe599b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0bb8f976181f6b02b09c44143b4efb3 SHA-1: 00b8b35deb0ba3cda5565f71b9c380ab055a5a85 SHA-256: e7c7f9034fe599b188a9e38842076884dc7abde79babe9e5ca24d7ea266d03b1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific redirector URL disguised as an owner's manual. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the primary URL leads to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and embedded URLs suggest a social engineering lure to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=2008%20chevy%20tahoe%20ltz%20owners%20manual
    • http://gopefen.milenaciciotti.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739430/xugoverili-zoxelajiritofut-babokizikivek.pdf
    • http://roxosugav.psykhepress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/tovazer_nemunoverep.pdf
    • http://files.cindyweaver2017.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379231/5391213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/adiabatic_process_work_done.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5962/files/66098773921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7595/2030/files/31916441322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8434/8569/files/barbell_front_squat_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1551/1964/files/wijetesewapazusogepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9605/4690/files/physics_solution_manuel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116/0344/files/66345126563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4587/8950/files/bozekiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/artisan_roaster_scope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8664/files/58578021400.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000465e.bin
f2b2c0eb919def0c95e3e518f54f89af4d5e9db776d7b5c72c7c82a265ac8331
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x465E 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059ba.bin
a5b8ffcfee0da97c111e5f7a193a1caad5d48d6616384e4e627a83629c28172f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59BA 9716 bytes